#rio

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#engagement #express #feel #i #i feel

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#art #final #final analysis #less #modes

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#bad #interesting #less #mysterious #ones

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. ↗

— Sophocles

#doing #doing good #glorious #good #good deeds

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#deeds #illustrious #life #make #more

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

#bloody #cast #country #disorders #hate

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#bargaining #doing #giving #iran #juvenile

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #apply #caution #cold #cold war

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. ↗

— George Soros

#contradicts #different #financial #financial markets #generally

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. ↗

— George Soros

#charge #currently #discussion #first #first principle